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October 23, 2006

Love? What's Love?

Greetings from San Francisco! I'm having a blast in warm weather and surrounded by friends. More on that when I return tomorrow.

The fitness room at the Hilton Financial District had tame elliptical trainers that like me. Even my .mp3 player decided to cooperate and play a series of songs I like (Best song for sprinting - Happy Badgers)

When I was cooling down, the .mp3 player considerately played Only You by Yaz from Upstairs at Eric's. That got me to thinking about favorite love songs.

This is different from "hot songs", or songs to dance horizontally by. Those would be Wicked Game from Heart Shaped World by Chris Isaak, More Than This from Avalon by Roxy Music (but were Bryan Ferry and Tiny Tim separated at birth?) and "Down to Zero" or "Love and Affection" by Joan Armatrading. Evidently, the folks at Youtube don't like those songs as much as "Weakness in Me", which gets several slashy treatments, both gay and lesbian. I've selected for you the Jake Gyllenhaal version. Mmmm. Jake.

Back to favorite love songs, besides "Only You", two other songs that came to mind are, appropriately enough, from 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields, Book of Love and Asleep and Dreaming (sorry, can't find it online).

I think there's a pattern to both my favorite hot songs and my favorite love songs. Tell me yours. That's what the comments are for.

Posted by Leigh Witchel at October 23, 2006 1:09 PM

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I don't have a favorite love song (macho guys like me don't bother with such mush).

But if I did, it would probably be the old Victor Young - Ned Washington standard "My Foolish Heart."

Posted by: Steve Keeley at October 24, 2006 9:48 PM

"Something To Talk About" sung by Bonnie Raitt, "If I Fell" sung by the Beatles, and "Harvest Moon" sung by Neil Young. Yes, Neil Young. It gets me all mooshy and cuddly. My last girlfriend and I sang "If I Fell" together, her on melody, me on harmony. It was very bonding.

*sigh*

Posted by: FiberQat at November 2, 2006 11:10 AM

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